Past Auctions

Including Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Wadsworth Jarrell & Simone Leigh

Artworks from the Offices of Ebony and Jet Magazines

Fall 2019 African-American Fine Art Highlights

An Introduction to the Catalogue by Eric Marcus | Highlights at a Glance

Upcoming Highlights

Upcoming Highlights

Comprehensive examples of twentieth century art movements include important paintings by Beauford Delaney and Norman Lewis, as well as a recently rediscovered painting by Jacob Lawrence.

Charles White's monumental Take My Mother Home, 1957, leads this powerful sale of important works from the last century.

Featuring works by assemblage artists working in LA in the 1970s, highlights include a large double body print by David Hammons. Also available are Abstract Expressionist works and Alma Thomas watercolors.

Autumn offerings from our African-American Fine Art department include works from the last 150 years with an especially strong selection of abstract canvases. Read more.

Many examples of scarce modern and contemporary works by influential artists, including Norman Lewis, Carrie Mae Weems, Ernie Barnes, and Loïs Mailou Jones, will be offered in this auction. More information here. 

This sale includes some of our African-American Fine Art Department's strongest offerings to date–with exceptional artworks from the Harlem Renaissance to the contemporary. More infomation can be found here. 

This auction features more than 40 works from the private collection of Dr. Maya Angelou, including works by Faith Ringgold, John Biggers and Romare Bearden. More information can be found here.

Highlights include paintings by Barkley Hendricks and Henry Ossawa Tanner, prints by Kara Walker and Carrie Mae Weems, and a recently rediscovered painting by Norman Lewis. 

The Richard A. Long collection consists of works by early pioneers of African-American art as well as modern masters, including Romare Bearden and Beauford Delaney.

Includes a strong section of artwork from the 1960s and 70s, including Barkley L. Hendricks's Sergio, 1972, and Walter Williams's Southern Landscape, 1963-64.

Swann's February auction of African-American Fine Art focuses on 19th-century, WPA and Harlem Renaissance artists whose work helped to shape the landscape of American art.

Features a wide range of visual art from the postwar period that reflects how African-American art evolved in the mid-20th century. Artists include Norman Lewis and William T. Williams.